Posted on 11/24/2008 4:34:10 PM PST by bruinbirdman
The UK is at "real risk" of imminent power shortages as a result of attempts to shift to more environmentally friendly methods of electrictity production
The study, which was carried out by Capgemini, a global energy consultancy firm, also claims that electricity generation has fallen to its lowest level in ten years.
The shortage has been caused by the increase in the level of demand for energy combined with a growing tendency to build wind turbines, at the expense of other, more reliable, electricity sources, it says.
The report estimates that around one quarter of the UK's energy plant capacity will close by 2015 as the country struggles to balance its carbon emissions targets with production of new energy sources.
An added problem is that Britain is moving from being self-sufficient in oil and gas as North Sea production declines, the report states.
In 2005, the UK became a net importer of gas. By 2010, imports could account for 40 per cent of British gas needs; by 2020, 80 per cent to 90 per cent.
Nuclear reactors currently account for about 20 per cent of Britain's electricity, but this will shrink to 6 per cent in 20 years as ageing plants are closed down.
A spokesman for Capgemini said that unless new power stations are built "the lights will go out".
He added: "Last year the system very nearly ran out of power and situation is still very tight. We have a large number of power stations that are going to close between now and 2015.
"There are stations that are planned to replace them but these stations are being built fairly slowly and the planned output of the new power stations will not necessarily cover those that are closing.
"We still have time to sort this out but over
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The “PLAN” is working.....
Same thing will afflict the US next.....
Obama’s wind farms, from now on.
Reject Obamunism in all it’s forms.
Did you see, T Boone pulled the plug on his wind famrs, said it was not cost effective.
TB finally realized what real people (you..me) knew all along.
Actually, he finally realized that we were smarter than he thought we were and he wasn’t going to be able to run his scam and get rich on our backs!!!!
What do think about that??!!??
The AGW train is about to get on the track. Hopefully by then America will be up to it's eyeballs in snow.
If we as a people had any sense whatsoever, we would be making plans for the cold — hardening power systems, water systems, fuel sources, testing out cold climate crops. Simple but needed things like that.
But since we don't seem to have that gift of common sense, we sit around and wait for Obamunism. Cold kills, heat you just sweat a little. Plants grow big and strong with more CO2 -- Sometimes I wonder if anybody in public school takes a basic science course anymore.
The whole idea behind Green insanity is power shortages.
Coming to a USofA near you.
perhaps if they dismantled all the spy cameras on the streets of London & it’s boroughs they might save a little electricity.imho the UK has become increasingly fascist in it’s use of these items....oh,one more thing, didn’t the Queen buy a giant windmill or is that for Charles’ use ?rofl
OH, too bad. Maybe they’ll learn something.
“Sometimes I wonder if anybody in public school takes a basic science course anymore.”
You, too??
a growing tendency to build wind turbines, at the expense of other, more reliable, electricity sources
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We’ll end up doing the ‘other, more reliable, electricity sources’ after the Øbama/Democrat Congress Fantasy ruins how many life’s?
“heat,” not “head” your house. Unless they ban flush toilets and you have to move your head to the backyard.
After Obama bankrupts the coal industry they will be.
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